The Lee’s Summit City Council erupted with accusations and finger-pointing Thursday evening after questions about emails and ethics concerns among members.

Much of the discussion focused on District 1 Council Woman Diane Forte, who owns a company that makes trophies.

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It came to light that Forte took two jobs from the city without bidding out the business to her competitors. One of the jobs was worth $700, and the other was worth $1,100.

According to city rules, any job worth more than $500 should be bid out.

The situation has sparked anger and accusations of intent, which boiled over during Thursday’s meeting.

“The saddest thing about this is I thought there were relationships here,” said Forte. “And there’s not. Because what this is, you can yack, yack, yack, about relationships and talking to people and this is what we need to do. By God, Dave, you could have called me,” said Forte.

“As awkward as the situation was at the school board situation, what we are dealing with here is actually potential violations of the law,” said District 4 Councilman Chris Moreno.

“Our council has received some pretty disturbing news over the last week and what is not being said tonight is that the disturbing news that we have received has to do with the majority of this council,” said District 2 Councilwoman Trish Caryle.

Moreno is making public more than 1,500 emails that he says details a lot of what's going on in the City Council.

Forte has resigned as a member of the Parks Department board and said she won’t do business with the Parks Department again.